Academics • Arts • Athletics

Caritas Christi

What’s Your Santa Margarita?

Opening Day, 1987

Nestled against the Saddleback Mountains, Santa Margarita Catholic High School’s campus provides an ideal environment for students to worship, learn, and thrive. The school began as a dream of the late Bishop William R. Johnson, who saw the need and potential for a Catholic high school in South Orange County.

In 1985, Bishop Johnson’s enthusiasm caught the attention of religious and business leaders and soon plans were under way to fund and build an extraordinary school. With God’s blessing, a handful of dedicated people, and the generosity of donors, Santa Margarita Catholic High School established its roots. The school opened its doors in the fall of 1987 andthe charter class of 218 students graduated in June of 1991. Now home to nearly 1,700 students each year, Santa Margarita boasts dedicated faculty and staff, unmatched academic programs, faith-filled activities and competitive athletics.

Santa Margarita prides itself in offering a variety of academic programs allowing all types of learners the opportunity to succeed. In October of 1995, the school launched its Auxiliary Studies Program to provide additional support to students who learn differently. Santa Margarita is the only Catholic school in the state to offer such a comprehensive program. In 1997, the school was accepted as a prestigious International Baccalaureate (IB) World School and is the only Catholic school in the county to offer the academically-rigorous IB track. Santa Margarita also offers Advanced Placement courses and an Interdisciplinary Program which emphasizes hands-on learning and weaves together subjects beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. In 1998, the United States Department of Education awarded Santa Margarita its highest honor – the Blue Ribbon, an award given to only the nation’s finest schools.

Now in our 27th year, the campus continues to progress. In 2007, the much anticipated Aquatic Center opened boasting an Olympic-sized, 50-meter pool. The Sacred Heart Chapel was renovated in 2008 and serves as the spiritual center of campus. The campus expanded in 2010 with the addition of the Eagle Athletic Center – the first LEED-certified, green building in the city of Rancho Santa Margarita and the Diocese of Orange. This facility rivals athletic facilities at the nation’s top universities. The school’s commitment to the environment continues with the Academic Services Center completed in the fall of 2011, also a LEED-certified building. With a focus on the future, the Academic Services Center offers innovative technology and enhanced counseling services.

Santa Margarita graduates become leaders in business, medicine, law, non-profits, military, finance, government and in the Church. With more than 8,902 alumni, Santa Margarita Catholic High School continues to produce exceptional graduates – spiritually, mentally, physically and emotionally – as Bishop Johnson envisioned.

Our History2014

Ranked Amongthe Top 40 Private

High Schoolsin the Nation by theWashington Post

Our Mission at Santa Margarita Catholic High School is to bring

the nurturing charism of Caritas Christi – the love of Christ –

to our community of faith and learning.

SMCHS strives to develop graduates who are:

Spiritually Intellectually People of Faith Skilled Lifelong Learners

Physically Socially & Morally Healthy Individuals Involved Citizens of the World

Discovery Faith development and extracurricular activities are an integral part of a Santa Margarita Catholic education. Students are encouraged to explore their passions, deepen their faith and reach beyond their comfort zone. It’s all about discovery and becoming part of a learning community.

Peer Ministry Students serve as faith leaders by coordinating school liturgies, prayer services, praise and worship activities, retreats and Christian service opportunities.

Campus Ministry Praise and Worship Nights Students gather throughout the school year for faith-filled fellowship. The evening events include inspirational talks from both students and adults, powerful praise and worship music, prayer and small group sharing. The program focuses on following Christ’s example. The praise and worship nights bridge the gap between faith and everyday life, between church on Sundays and weekday commitments.

Spiritual Retreats School spiritual retreats offer teens a chance to break away from the demands of everyday life and grow with God and their peers. Retreats are offered for all grade levels. The experience encourages unity and friendship within our community of faith. Kairos, a nationally-recognized retreat program, is offered to seniors at a critical time in their lives as they prepare for college and beyond. The powerful four-day retreat in Julian, California gives teens a chance to deepen their relationship with God, one another and themselves.

Religious Leadership Santa Margarita is proud to have both a priest and sister on campus serving as a witness of religious life. Through a partnership with the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and the Disciples of Mary, the school has both a full-time campus chaplain and faith formation facilitator. Both sister and father assist with the pastoral and spiritual needs of the school including helping to celebrate the sacraments, serving as guest speakers in religion classes and organizing faith formation opportunities. Modeling the charism of the school – Caritas Christi (the love of Christ) – they work to spread God’s love through prayers, stories, advice, smiles and teachings.

Link Crew Santa Margarita is the only Catholic high school in Orange County to offer Link Crew. The nationally-recognized transition program provides freshmen with a warm welcome and eases the leap into high school both academically and socially. Built on the belief that students can help students succeed, Link Crew trains upperclassmen to serve as positive role models and mentors for the freshman class.

Faith & Family

Investing in Tomorrow’s Leaders • For the 2014-2015 more than $1.3 million in tuition assistance was awarded to Santa Margarita families (based on financial need)

• One out of every five students receives tuition assistance

• Tuition assistance, combined with academic and leadership scholarships, can provide up to 50% of the cost of tuition at Santa Margarita Catholic High School for those who qualify

Technology Integration Santa Margarita Catholic High School utilizes technology to enhance student

learning. Our technology initiatives continue to grow as we provide our students

with the resources necessary to be successful in today’s digital world.

� Full-time staff are devoted to effectively integrating technology in the classroom and ensuring Santa Margarita remains at the forefront with a focus on the future. The school’s Director of lnstructional Technology guides our faculty on utlizing technology to enhance instruction and learning while also providing leadership and vision for a variety of educational technology initiatives. Santa Margarita students are provided with the most effective, up-to-date resources that foster an innovative learning environment.

� Interactive e-books in designated classes bring text books to life opening up new possibilities for learning.

� Optional Blended Online Learning courses, combining web-based learning and in-person instruction, are available to junior and senior students and during summer school. Student-centered, this approach develops life skills including time management and responsibility.

� A custom Learning Portal delivers web-based content allowing students to interact with classmates and their teacher outside of the traditional classroom.  As a college-preparatory high school, we believe it is important to create an educational environment that will prepare our students for what they will experience in their college and career life.

� Technology-centered electives – including TV and digital media production, film, graphic design, computer programming, and computer graphics – provide students with opportunities to broaden their technology skills.

� Specialized TI-Nspire calculators help tackle advanced mathematical problems and enable teachers to easily poll students electronically to better assess comprehension in real-time and strengthen class participation.

� Santa Margarita’s Digital Media Studio provides a learning lab for television and film production classes and is home to the student-run news show ETV. The studio features a HD (high definition) control room and advanced audio, video, lighting, cameras and editing equipment on par with studios on college campuses.

� Digital Document cameras allow teachers to create more engaging lesson content by easily capturing images, video and audio and displaying them through our classroom projectors.

� Cutting-edge film and editing equipment allows athletic teams to break down, analyze and watch game film.

� The campus is equipped with a high-speed wireless network.

� Interactive “smart boards” enhance learning Combining the simplicity of a whiteboard and the power of a computer, interactive whiteboards allow our teachers to deliver dynamic lessons.

Santa Margarita’s One-to-One Tablet PC Program places a tablet in the hands of every student and teacher. Loaded with educational software, the tablets provide an immersive educational experience preparing our students for college and the professional world. The program fosters a collaborative, student-centered classroom environment inspiring enthusiasm and ownership in student learning.

9 One-to-One Tablet PC Program

9 Web-based learning

9 Eagle TV

9 Interactive e-books

9 TI-Nspire calculators

9 Interactive whiteboards

9 Digital overhead cameras

9 High-speed wireless network

9 Interactive “smart boards”

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College acceptance list for the Class of 2014

Academic Options:Whether you have specialized learning needs and require additional support or thrive in the most rigorous of programs, Santa Margarita’s academic tracks are tailored to meet the varied needs of our learners. • International Baccalaureate (IB) • Advanced Placement (AP)• Honors• College Preparatory• Interdisciplinary Program (ID)• Auxiliary Studies Program (ASP)

Individual Attention:Eight counselors assist students with academic and college planning, college admissions, testing preparation and personal counseling needs. Santa Margarita keeps classes small with a 16:1 student to faculty ratio and an average class size of 28. Students have access to scholarship information, career guidance, and interest and personality assessments. A college and career database connects students to more than 3,000 colleges and universities.

Opportunities:• Annual Alumni Career Day• Annual College Fair • College admission staff visits – more than 100 visits each year• Access to a database detailing hundreds of scholarships

College Bound:• 99% of graduates in the Class of 2014 attend college• The Class of 2014 was offered more than $33.2 million in college scholarships. • Santa Margarita Class of 2014 graduates attended schools across the nation including Boston University, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, College of William & Mary, Cornell, DePaul, Duke, Georgetown, George Washington, Gonzaga, Harvard, Loyola Marymount, Loyola University of Chicago, Notre Dame, NYU, The Ohio State University, Princeton, Purdue, Santa Clara, Southern Methodist University, Texas Christian University, UC Berkeley, UCLA, USC, The University of Alabama, University of Oregon, University of San Diego, Villanova, Washington University in St. Louis, Yale

Preparing for the Future College and Beyond

International Baccalaureate World SchoolSanta Margarita is one of only two Catholic International Baccalaureate (IB) World high schools in the state. The program aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. Santa Margarita offers both the Full Diploma and Certificate Programs. An IB diploma is the only globally-recognized degree with classes taught at an international standard. Students in the IB program have the opportunity to earn college credit. Santa Margarita has an 86% pass rate (Class of 2014), well above the international 79% rate.

Model United NationsThe Model United Nations (MUN) program catapults students into the world of diplomacy and negotiation with students stepping into the shoes of United Nations ambassadors. Students prepare positions and speeches, plot strategies, negotiate, debate and seek to resolve conflicts. Our students have had the opportunity to visit and compete in China, London and Paris. In the past ten years, Santa Margarita students have traveled more than 28,688,000 miles to MUN conferences around the world. The conferences bring together international students fostering cultural awareness.

Culturally DiverseSanta Margarita Catholic High School is pleased to offer admission to international students. These students bring rich diversity to our institution. In the fall of 2014, Santa Margarita welcomed 30 new international students bringing the total number of students from abroad to 67. Santa Margarita has recently welcomed students from Australia, Canada, China, Croatia, Germany, Korea, Latvia, Mexico, Norway, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam. Many of these students live with Santa Margarita host families. Bringing cultures together from across the globe helps build well-rounded students.

Christian ServiceOne of the most important ways students learn is through service. Santa Margarita students engage in meaningful service projects through the school’s Christian Service Program. Projects include volunteering at Goodwill, serving as coaches and mentors at a Special Olympics track and field meet as well as serving the working poor at a local soup kitchen and organizing a carnival for low-income children. Students also have the opportunity to do an in-depth service project working with a local nonprofit of their choice. The program develops in each student the art of recognizing, comprehending and caring for the needs of others. A testament to Caritas Christi, the love of Christ, the program develops in each student the habit of seeing the world as God sees it. Students also have the chance to participate in immersion trips which combine service with cultural and outdoor education. Opportunities include serving on the Taos Native American Reservation in New Mexico and serving the poorest of poor in Uruguay and the surrounding area.

An International UnderstandingGlobal Thinkers

Eagle Regiment & Color Guard The Eagle Regiment has earned

regional finalist honors for the past five consecutive years, finishing in the top five in the state at the Western Band Association Championships and the Southern California Scholastic Band and Orchestra Association. In 2013, the Eagle Regiment finished fourth out of 35 Division A bands in Southern California. The color guard has also earned many accolades in recent years. In addition to making semifinals at the Winter Guard International Championships in Dayton, Ohio in 2011 and 2012, they also received a Silver Medal at the Winter Guard Association Southern California championships in 2014.

Dance One of the largest dance programs in Orange County our students perform at regional, state, and national levels frequently bringing home first place awards. On several occasions, the team has been invited to perform at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Santa Margarita was one of five initial schools to pilot the International Baccalaureate dance program. Graduates earn significant college scholarships to dance programs across the

country.

Instrumental Music Santa Margarita provides students with the unique opportunity to participate in a broad variety of instrumental music ensembles at varying levels of experience. With over ten different ensembles, students have the opportunity to grow in their study of string, wind, percussion, steel drum and classical guitar instruments. Santa Margarita provides not only ensemble instruction, but also specialized training from professional musicians and artists. Students have performed at prestigous venues including the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. The Symphony Orchestra was recently invited to perform and tour throughout Austria. Choir The Santa Margarita choir has performed in celebrated music venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, the Los Angeles Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Orange County Performing Arts Center. During the summer of 2012, the choir performed throughout Italy singing for Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. This year, the choir will perform throughout Ireland. The choir has earned silver and gold medallions at competitions throughout the country and was honored to perform at the State Capitol Building in Honolulu, Hawaii as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of Hawaii’s statehood. Singers from the choir are accepted into major conservatories and universities around the world including Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College The New School for Music, Julliard, Oberlin, Eastman School of Music, and

New England Conservatory.

Theatre The award-winning Talon Theatre program includes courses from beginning through advanced levels in acting, musical theatre, technical theatre and design. In addition to the comprehensive training available to students, Talon Theatre produces two main stage productions annually – a fall drama or comedy and a spring musical. Encore, a song and dance touring group, performs throughout the year at SMCHS events and in the community. The program’s Thespian Honor Society members have the opportunity to attend California and International Thespian Festivals. Talon Theatre participates in the Orange County Cappies Critic and MACY programs, frequently bringing home top honors including the MACY for Best Musical in 2014. Additional extra-curricular training is offered through the Talon Academy of Performing Arts (TAPA), a mentorship and coaching program available for students planning to continue their theatre studies in college and beyond. Talon Theatre alumni have gone on to study at some of the most prestigious college theatre programs in the country, many landing professional careers in theatre, film, and television.

PHOTO OF VISUAL ARTIST

The Visual Arts Department at

Santa Margarita Catholic High

School offers a diverse

curriculum including fine arts

and digital media courses from

beginning to advanced levels.

Our college prep program

includes AP and IB courses in

art. A nurturing environment

promotes creativity and

exercises the imagination.

Through our program, students

develop confidence and an

appreciation for other cultures

and the world around them.

Most importantly, each of our

teachers encourages students

to take pride in their work and

develop their God given talents.

Courses include:Drawing, Painting,

Video Production, Graphic Design, Film, Art History,

3D Sculpture and Photography.

Performing ArtsVisual Arts

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Eagle Athletic Center Santa Margarita Catholic High School is the proud home of the Eagle Athletic Center, the first LEED-certified building in Rancho Santa Margarita and in the Diocese of Orange. LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, was developed by the U.S. Green Building Council and is considered the benchmark in sustainable construction. The process is voluntary and demonstrates leadership, innovation and social responsibility. The $8.7 million, 39,000 square-foot center serves the diverse needs of the school’s competitive athletic programs and provides premier physical education opportunities to the entire student body. The building opened in the spring of 2010.

The three-story athletic center features a 5,822 square-foot fitness and weight room, team rooms, conference rooms, coaches’ offices, an 800 square-foot trainers’ room, wrestling facility, five classrooms and banquet space. Teams have the ability to analyze plays in a theatre-style film room. The building also has two smaller film rooms featuring interactive electronic whiteboards. The Eagle Athletic Center rivals athletic facilities at elite universities.

The materials used to construct the athletic center are environmentally friendly, contain renewable resources and conserve energy. The building uses 42 percent less water than a typical building and 21 percent less energy. About 10 percent of the building was constructed from recyclable material and 75 percent of the construction waste was recycled. The building earned silver-level LEED certification.

Building for the Future

Academic Services CenterIn September of 2011, Santa Margarita opened the new Academic Services Center. The $6.4 million building centralizes the school’s academic offices housing the Counseling, Auxiliary Studies Program Center, International Baccalaureate, Advanced Placement and Online Learning and Assessment Departments under one roof. Ten “smart classrooms” outfitted with interactive whiteboards, netbooks where students can access e-books, and specialized lighting and audio technology provide our students with state-of-the art learning facilities. Node chair desks create a dynamic learning environment allowing students to easily transition from one mode to the next whether it’s wheeling into groups, utilizing their netbooks at their adjustable desks or swiveling around to watch a presentation. The center also includes the school’s 3,400 square-foot Digital Media Studio, a learning lab for television and film production classes and home to the student-run news show Eagle TV. The studio features a high definition (HD) control room and advanced audio, video, lighting, cameras and editing equipment on par with studios on college campuses. Students attend French, Ancient Greek, Latin, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese classes in the new building.

The new center is LEED-certified, an internationally-recognized green building certification, representing a commitment to the environment. Future plans for Santa Margarita include a long-awaited arts center, further developing the on-campus orchard and an equestrian facility.

Creating Legacies

EAGLES

• 53 CIF championships, 181 league championships and 8 state championships ̶ more than any other school in Southern California since Santa Margarita opened in 1987

• Seven-time recipient of the CIF Commissioner’s Cup which honors the top boys and girls athletic programs in the CIF Southern Section. Santa Margarita is tied with Loyola, an all-boys Jesuit school, for taking home the coveted cup more than any other school in the 581-member section

• Competitive athletic programs that emphasize sportsmanship and character building • 24 CIF teams, plus club sports including roller hockey, ice hockey, and equestrian

• 7 out of 10 student body participates in athletics

• Football, swimming, diving, cross country, girls basketball, water polo, wrestling and track and field all promote a no-cut policy

• 17 current Santa Margarita coaches have earned the title of Orange County, CIF, or State Coach of the Year

• Santa Margarita competes in the Trinity League, touted as one of the top leagues in the nation

• Athletes are consistently recruited and earn athletic scholarships to top universities across the country

Eco-friendly Facilities: • Three-story, 39,000 square-foot athletic center including a wrestling facility, a 5,822 square-foot fitness and weight room with top-of-the line equipment, team rooms, locker facilities, banquet hall, film rooms with theatre seating and interactive boards, sports medicine treatment center and coaches offices

• Aquatic center boasts an Olympic-sized 50-meter pool, spectator seating for 500, state-of-the-art timing and scoreboard system, coaches offices, and team room Notable Athletes include: • Kris Farris ’95 NFL player, Outland Trophy winner

• Carson Palmer ’98 NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner

• Erika Figge ’03 2008 Water Polo US. Olympic Team, World Championship Medalist

• Jared Hughes ’03 Major League Baseball Player

• Brian Finneran ’04 NFL player, Walter Payton Award recipient

• Amy Rodriguez ’05 Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist in Soccer • Klay Thompson ’08 NBA player

• Gavin Escobar ’09 NFL Player

• Beau Hossler Jr. ’13 Second-youngest golfer to qualify for the U.S. Open in the event’s history

Creating Legacies

Santa Margarita Catholic High School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color or ethnic origin, in the administration of its educational, admissions, financial assistance, athletic policies or in other school administered programs.Caritas Christi

It’s A Great Day To Be An Eagle!